Which Legislators Pay Attention to Other States’ Policies? Comparing Cosponsorship to Floor Voting in the Diffusion of Renewable Portfolio Policy

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ID6329778
AutoresSrinivas C Parinandi (0000-0001-5863-2965), Stefani R Langehennig (0000-0002-0897-6556), Mark Trautmann
Año2021
Volumen49
Número2
Páginas408-430
Fecha de publicación2021-05-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolicy Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/psj.12414
OpenAlexW3083181381
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas37

Diffusion research has focused predominantly on analyzing collective decision making at the adoption stage. We evaluate diffusion at the level of the individual legislator and examine whether external cues play a stronger role in legislator decision making in cosponsorship versus adoption via floor voting. Leveraging data on successful and failed efforts across the U.S. states to adopt renewable portfolio standards (RPS), we show that the cue of ideological similarity matters more for RPS diffusion during adoption than cosponsorship. The result validates copious research that investigates external cues at adoption without considering that such cues might exert stronger influence earlier in lawmaking. Moreover, in devising a method to assess whether legislators are differentially receptive to cues from other states (here, we compared the baseline of adoption against cosponsorship), we provide scholars with a framework to further explore the question of whether external influence may be more pronounced among some legislators than others

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